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Title: DeepSeek's First Reasoning Model R1-Lite-Preview Beats OpenAI o1
Performance

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/20/2129207/d...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: DeepSeek, an AI
offshoot of Chinese quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management
focused on releasing high performance open source tech, has unveiled the R1-
Lite-Preview, its latest reasoning-focused large language model, available
for now exclusively through DeepSeek Chat, its web-based AI chatbot. Known
for its innovative contributions to the open-source AI ecosystem, DeepSeek's
new release aims to bring high-level reasoning capabilities to the public
while maintaining its commitment to accessible and transparent AI. And the R1-
Lite-Preview, despite only being available through the chat application for
now, is already turning heads by offering performance nearing and in some
cases exceeding OpenAI's vaunted o1-preview model. Like that model released
in September 2024, DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview exhibits "chain-of-thought"
reasoning, showing the user the different chains or trains of "thought" it
goes down to respond to their queries and inputs, documenting the process by
explaining what it is doing and why. While some of the chains/trains of
thoughts may appear nonsensical or even erroneous to humans, DeepSeek-R1-Lite-
Preview appears on the whole to be strikingly accurate, even answering
"trick" questions that have tripped up other, older, yet powerful AI models
such as GPT-4o and Claude's Anthropic family, including "how many letter Rs
are in the word Strawberry?" and "which is larger, 9.11 or 9.9?"

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